S. Craig Hufford
Straightforward support for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About S.
S. Craig Hufford is a licensed professional counselor who brings 25 years of clinical experience to his work. He focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship strain, grief and loss, intimacy issues, and parenting concerns.
He speaks plainly and listens first so people can describe what matters most to them. His style is supportive and straightforward, aimed at helping people take practical steps forward. Craig believes each person knows their life best and that therapy builds on those strengths.
Background and approach
He encourages honest talk about hard things and helps clients try different ways of coping. Conversations often include steps to reduce worry, improve communication, and manage grief in day-to-day life. He blends therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to match each person’s needs.
That mix lets him offer concrete tools and space to reflect. Sessions can involve skill practice, goal setting, and checking what actually works between meetings. Over his career he has helped people facing career stress, family problems, trauma, and transitions like divorce or caregiving changes.
He also works with concerns such as infertility, adoption and foster care, fatherhood, and hospice or end-of-life counseling. His approach is patient, steady, and focused on useful changes. Craig is licensed in Missouri as an LPC.
He conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. To begin he asks prospective clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time to meet.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which is useful for anxiety, grief, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It often includes concrete exercises and short homework tasks to try between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and respect for the client’s pace, creating space to explore concerns and build on strengths.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with him uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, and busy schedules while maintaining continuity when life changes. The focus is on practical support and skills that can be used between sessions, with communication formats chosen to match each person’s needs and rhythm.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to S.
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point